[Coco] Read coco disks on a PC

[John Orwen]

MS2COCO.BAS is in Rainbow June 86

John N0GFB


On 3/16/2012 1:20 AM, Arthur Flexser wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 9:57 AM, John E. Malmberg<wb8tyw at qsl.net>  wrote:
>> I did an experiment a few years back and discovered that the COCO BASIC disk
>> read/write routines could read/write sectors on MS-DOS formatted 512 byte
>> double density disks.
>>
>> So the question is:  Who will be the first person to write a DISK Basic
>> program to display the root directory of an MS-DOS formatted floppy.
>>
> Didn't Marty Goodman publish a program in Rainbow back in the late 80s
> or so that did exactly that?  I think it was called MS2CC or PC2CC or
> something like that.  I believe the same article also presented the
> first program that could read CoCo disks on a PC.
>
> Art
>
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